Welcome to the hobby Russ. We will have a station on 6 meters. Listen for KK5W.
Most of the activity will be on 20, 40 and 80 meters. Plan to drop by today, tonight or tomorrow before 1 pm . Ron Litt, K5HM On Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 09:59 Russell Brown via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > Just joined BVARC > Live in Pearland-Brazoria County > Passed tech class exam 6/15/19 > Waiting on FCC database notice. > Totally green. > Bought yaesu FT-8900R quad band ( 10, 6, 2 meter, and 70cm ) for Jeep, and > matched Diamond CR8900A antenna. > Was told it is ok to listen in as long as I don’t PTT ( transmit)...? > Is there a good channel I could listen to some of the activity? I need to > start learning proper on-air procedure... and get familiar with Club > practices. > If I can get loose I hope to come by the Park today to check out the > event... > Thanks, > Russell Brown > [email protected] > > > > Sent from my mobile device > > > On Jun 22, 2019, at 8:42 AM, Mike Hardwick via BVARC <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Someone will be on the repeater all day. > > Mike Hardwick. > > On Jun 22, 2019, at 2:10 AM, D. Howard Bingham via BVARC <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hope someone on the VHF repeater, my FT-840 hasn't been out of the box > since October 2014 since move to Deer Park. > > 73 > > ke5apj Howard Bingham in Deer Park. > > -- > On 6/21/2019 10:38 PM, Mike Hardwick via BVARC wrote: > > Well so far the set-up has gone well with only a few hiccups. Most of the > antennas have been installed in their respective locations. Final > installation of the digital antennas and tweaking of the CW and SSB > antennas will be done Saturday morning. I have attached a picture of how > the antennas looked just before I left for the evening. It is a really > great picture seeing the antennas in the air with a sun set as a back drop. > > > > Thanks to Bill Cordell, the CW room is just right on the temperature – > really cold! I don’t think there will be any complaints about the > conditions in the CW room this year other than – “ can someone turn up the > thermostat, Its freezing in here!”. The SSB room will also have supplement > air conditioning as well so this year should be the coolest operators yet > (really bad, isn’t it)! > > > > The GOTA station antenna is up as well as a beverage antenna. I did not > found out who put up the beverage antenna but it is a really big one. I > will have to find out and let everyone know tomorrow. > > > > Last but not least, the culinary expertise of Daphne, Kelli and Anita were > brought together Friday night. They had custom made sandwiches with chips > and a choice of lemon pound cake or chocolate cookies. With personal > service they have brought the meal service up several notches. The culinary > team will be making home made breakfast tacos in the morning. They will be > served in the “CW Bistro” from 8am to 10 am. The team will then have lunch > from noon to 2 pm also being served in the CW Bistro. Then don’t forget > Saturday night’s dinner from 5 pm to 7 pm. With BBQ brisket and sausage > from Rudy’s, the evening meal will make sure no one goes home hungry. > > > > Hope to see everyone at Duhascek Park on Saturday. > > > > Mike > > N5VCX > > > > -- > > D. Howard Bingham *Email: [email protected] > 2722 Wisdom Drive *Email: [email protected] > Deer Park, Texas *Email: [email protected] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Supporting Passenger Rail in Texas - www.TEXARP.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > Radio,Radio,Radio We are a radio Club! > Talk it up! On the air about every event, every meeting, every net, every > time, talk about the club, ham fests, events and people. > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > Radio,Radio,Radio We are a radio Club! > Talk it up! On the air about every event, every meeting, every net, every > time, talk about the club, ham fests, events and people. > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > Radio,Radio,Radio We are a radio Club! > Talk it up! On the air about every event, every meeting, every net, every > time, talk about the club, ham fests, events and people. > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] >
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